Project: Dripping Blood Text Effect in Photoshop

As Halloween approaches, I wanted to create something unique, like a Halloween text effect with a twist (or a drip in this case). I enjoy creating custom textures from scratch using Photoshop, but recently I’ve started thinking about ways to animate textures.

Lately, I’ve been working on different techniques to push Photoshop beyond its traditional expectations regarding animation. Keeping in theme with the approaching holiday, I wanted to show off a new technique. Below is an animated text effect of dripping blood created 100% in Photoshop.

Dripping Blood Text Effect.

Screenshots

Below are some of the screenshots during the creation of this project:This is an example of the base text. All textures were applied on top of it.An example of an experiment with textured text. I liked the style of this, but in the end, it wasn’t working.An example of textures applied to the base text. You can start to see this taking on a more organic appearance.Another example of a failed experiment. The blood texture was a little over the top.